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CEO Resignation and Succession

Company: CleanSpark

Subject kind
personnel
Statement date
2026-01-21
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Zachary K. Bradford resigned as CEO and officer on August 10, 2025; S. Matthew Schultz appointed as new CEO

Source (primary)

CleanSpark DEF 14A filed 2026-01-22 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “On August 10, 2025, CleanSpark co-founder and CEO Zachary K. Bradford resigned as an officer and director, and the Board appointed S. Matthew Schultz to the CEO position.”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 16, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827876/000119312526019447/clsk-20260122.htm) in full (209,957 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms CleanSpark DEF 14A filed 2026-01-22

Quote: “On August 10, 2025, CleanSpark co-founder and CEO Zachary K. Bradford resigned as an officer and director, and the Board appointed S. Matthew Schultz to the CEO position.”

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